Our Top 5 Pub Crawls



So here's our Top 5 pub crawls. We couldn't decide which order to put these in...so we didn't!

If you try any of these, we would love to hear your stories (if you can remember them!), so please do let us know. Either in the comments, twitter or barhopcousins@gmail.com.


Bristol Ferry

Not sure if this should count as a pub crawl because we travelled between pubs by a small ferry. Perhaps a pub sail or float would be more fitting. However, I think this is one of the most unique pub "crawls" we've ever done and I strongly recommend it. 

My cousin, a local, was armed with the Bristol Ferry Timetable and a map. We disembarked from the City Centre with our all day travel passes and we managed to fit in 6 pubs and a pizza. My cousin calculated we could spend 30mins in each pub before getting the next ferry…this worked really well until the seal had broken. 

After ferrying it around Bristol we went on to Motion for the Rum and Reggae Festival and then we finished the night in Turtle Bay for late Happy Hour cocktails (it felt like a good idea at the time!).

The pubs – Bristol Beer Factory, The Pump House, Nova Scotia, The Cottage, The Ostrich and The Barley Mow.
Food – Pi Shop

Tea Towel Challenge


So one day I was walking up Ealing Broadway and as I'm passing a shop called All Original I spot in the window a Tea Towel called – Ealing Pubs by Charlotte Berridge. I promptly took a picture of it and sent it to my cousin, jokingly suggesting that I would use this as a pub guide the next time he came to visit. He quickly responded that we should take it with us to each pub and rate the establishment out of five. What five points make an ideal pub? Answers on a postcard, please.

The tea towel features 14 pubs around Ealing so it was no mean feat. As we're responsible drinkers we decided to do this over 24 hours. There was shaky moment when we nearly quit when we reached the 13th pub, we had to get to Camden for a family meal in an hour and the last pub was about 30mins away on foot….but I implored that we can't quit now and we jumped into an Uber and made it to the last pub on the tea towel….we were so glad we did as this was one of the best pubs on the tea towel.

Charlotte has since created a tea towel for Chiswick and a poster for Richmond Pubs…so we're not going to be short of material for next couple of months.

The Ealing pubs – The New Inn W5, The Rose and Crown W5, The Castle Inn W5, The North Star W5, The Red Lion W5,  The Forester W13, The Wheatsheaf W5, The Plough W5, The Grove W5, The Grosvenor W7, The Kings Arms W5, Ealing Park Tavern W5, The Grange W5 and the The Duke Of Kent W13.
Food – Stir fried duck at home, chips and a curry…..not all at the same time or even on the same day…maybe?!

CAMRA - Great British Beer Festival

This has to be the ultimate bar hop experience. So many bars and breweries all under one roof in Olympia, London. 

The pubs – over 30 bars to get through (not that we did!).
Food – Pork scratchings.

Historical London
There was something magical about this one. I imagined that we were drinking in the footsteps of Charles Dickens and other famous authors. Imaging how the areas must have looked in their time and the inspiration they managed to gleam from it. 

When you go to The George, look out for the Life Insurance of Charles Dickens. Click here for a more detail account of the Historical London pub crawl.

The pubs – The George SE1, The Dickens Inn, The Cockpit, Punch tavern, The Old Bell, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, The Seven Stars, The Lyceum, The Lamb & Flag.
Food – Borough Market

Our first pub crawl


Our first official pub crawl started in Bristol. I think this is one of the most underrated cities in the UK. Most people will go to Bath but just up the road you've got Bristol…a city filled with culture and trivia…and of course plenty of pubs! 

We posted a blog on our first bar hop to Bristol, which is so detailed we had split it into two parts. Some of our antics on this bar hop still makes us blush…so be warned….Part 1 and Part 2.

The pubs – Zero Degrees, King William, Royal Navy, The Llandogger Trowl, The Old Duke, The Crown and The Cornubia.
Food – Chips.


Stay classy and thanks for stopping by.

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